Re: [PATCH 3/3] printer port driver: semaphore to mutex

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 21:01 +0100, Remy Bohmer wrote:
> Daniel,
> 
> FYI: I am working on the conversion of the 2 sem->mutex in kernel/printk.c

I looked at the console_sem , but i was going to leave that as last..

The problem with the console_sem is that it can get locked from
interrupt context, which is discouraged with mutex types.. I think it
will be complicated to convert..

Daniel

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